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Just bought a set of Swaro El's and they didn't come with a neck strap. I've always carried binos with a neck strap so I can quickly access them , glass something I spot and put them back under my unbuttoned coat or shirt, depending on what I'm wearing at the moment. Never really cared for a harness, since I usually carry my daypack when I'm out and about hiking and spotting.

So, who makes a really comfortable neck strap? I see lots of these on line, but I don't want to go through this a half dozen times and have it arrive and find out it is only slightly better than a shoe string- which I've used in an emergency when I broke my neck strap one year.... These Swaros are also quite a bit heavier than the Leupolds I used to carry, so I'm looking for something a bit more substantial than the Leupold strap I've been using for years...

TIA,
Bob

Bob you need to try a bino harness. You won’t have near the neck fatigue with a harness when packing around heavy binoculars.

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I have the crooked horn outfitters but several people make them now.

Consider a chest bino pouch/pack, they are pretty much in vogue now especially for heavier binos.

Alaskan Guide Creations, Vortex, Kuiu, Mystery Ranch and others make em. Better protection than the bino harness and less fatigue than a neck strap.

Alaskan Guide Creations

Vortex Guide

Not sure any neoprene strap is better than any other

I use the Nimrod harness for heavy binos and the Rick Young harness for light ones. The Rick Young system can be used a number of different ways

I use the Rick Young bino harness. No neck fatigue, keeps the binos out of the way until they are needed. Highly recommend.

If you want a swaro neck strap, I have the ones that came off my EL's.

I use a vero velleni and like it when not using a chest rig

I use Rick Young as well. Very simple harness but works great. I use it for a 8x42 as well as a 12.5x50 and have no complaints.

I would appreciate it if you feel like messing with sending them down. PM me with what you want for them and other info.... funny thing, I hunt the Blues in Oregon quite often....


I'm just not the harness type of guy... I wear a heavy coat most of the time elk hunting, along with my day pack and other things. Having a harness around my chest the couple times I tried it just drove me crazy. I prefer the simple notion of having a neck strap and I wrap it around my shirt collar for a bit of extra padding and slip the binos into my unbuttoned shirt or coat when I'm not using them and they are extremely handy to get out quickly and put back if I have to move to a better spot quickly or have to get down on my hands and knees to creep up on a perch to spy on an animal.... getting too old to change tactics now....

Thanks for the info guys... Midway has the Vellinni units on sale at the moment also, so I may have to try them...

Bob

These help to reduce the felt weight of the binoculars. If I might be running, crawling or climbing I have a mini bungee cord I put on around my waist, it is long enough I can glass without taking it off and it helps to steady the binos some too. I know what you mean about the harness and they seem so overbuilt on some models like you were going to load a deer quarter in there and haul it.

I go to the hardware store, buy harness leather straps, and cut to desired dimensions. Lasts for decades and is cold and/or UV resistant. Don't care for the harness systems where one is tugging against restraining shock cords etc during extended glassing. Being out there with a goal of nailing deer, elk, or whatever, weight is no issue.

This x100

Still use the elastic harness type but with all the plastic noisemakers removed. Can’t get into the chest pack tacticool woke sacks....

I went o a full on chest rig a few years back, and its the best thing I ever did....never cared what the deers, coyotes, or Fudds thought about how it looked. Binos, mouth calls, caller remote, spare mag, first aid, rangefinder...all right where I need it without having to dig or fumble.

For something to hold them up the Rick Young can’t be beat.

For a no frills bino harness badlands makes some great ones at a decent price point.

If you want it all. The new one from Sitka although much for shed hunting/ hiking will replace everything else in the hunting season.

Rick Young is the way to go.

There a molle pouch for the sink?

Oddly enough, not a single molle strap anywhere on the whole rig...

Pouch that holds my rangefinder, one that holds my diaphragm calls/tourniquet/random nonsense, pistol rides in the right hand mag pouch, Lucky Duck remote in the left pouch, the middle two pouches I split to hold binos. Two pistol mag pouches carry mouth calls, howler, strikers, etc ...

It's a hell of a set up. I don't have to carry a pack much anymore when coyote or turkey hunting, and everything is exactly where I need it to be.